Posted by Squiggles on August 29, 2006, at 13:28:35
In reply to Re: Psychopharmacology of addicting drugs, posted by bassman on August 29, 2006, at 12:31:43
> That's it! Let's start a new field, "Philosophical Pharmaceutical Science". :>} We'd have to have courses like, "PP 101: Why Your Company Shouldn't Make Dangerous Drugs", "PP201: Making Money or Killing People-How to Decide", "PP 301: Why All Moral Ethicists from 12,000 BCE to the Present Were Wrong", "PP 401: Heck, they are Going to Die of Something Anyway", "PP 501: Increasing Market Share by Selling Addictive Drugs", etc.
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> A person with a degree in PP would, of course demand an unreasonably high salary…
>Hee hee, "The Ministry of Mental Hygiene",
with standards set by BigPharm and applied
by the FDA and other international regulatory health care bodies. Ethicists (logicians,
statisticians, linguists, public health consultants) may contribute to journals edited by The Ministry and supported by grants from The Ministry.
I think we're already there.:=)Squiggles
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